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• About 18% of provider organizations surveyed by KLAS experienced
malware attacks on medical devices in the past 18 months.
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20181005/NEWS/181009942
• August 31, 2018 - Nine cybersecurity vulnerabilities have been found
in the Philips e-Alert Unit, a tool that monitors MRI system
performance, according to an Aug. 30 ICS-CERT advisory.
https://healthitsecurity.com/news/9-cybersecurity-vulnerabilities-found-in-philips-e-alert-tool
• October 15, 2018 - The FDA issued a medical device safety alert
about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Medtronic’s CareLink
programmers that could enable an attacker to change the
functionality of the programmer or the implanted pacemaker it
controls. https://healthitsecurity.com/news/fda-warns-of-cybersecurity-vulnerabilities-in-carelink-programmers
• November 7, 2018 - ICS-CERT is warning about cybersecurity
vulnerabilities in Roche point-of-care handheld medical devices.
https://healthitsecurity.com/tag/medical-device-security
• January 30, 2019 - DHS Alerts to Vulnerabilities in Stryker and BD
Medical Devices – Smart medical beds subject to wireless attacks
that can lead to compromise of administrator accounts
https://healthitsecurity.com/news/dhs-alerts-to-vulnerabilities-in-stryker-and-bd-medical-devices
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